Volume 29 Chapter 2 (2/2)
”No can do, Yuantic news that you have taken a petit soeur be let go of that easily? I certainly wouldn't be able to let it go It's the will of our readers The public demands it It's comparable to my earlier article with Sachiko-san, 'Exclusive Intervieith Rosa Chinensis! She Tells All About Her Petit Soeur,' - no, I think it needs even more space than that In that case, we have no choice For so, we have to replace next week's edition with a special devoted entirely to the birth of the Rosa Chinensis en bouton soeurs - ”
”We can't do that, onee-sama”
Mami-san interjected
”What?”
Drunk on her oords, Minako-sas
”What, indeed Next week's edition is the special about the Valentine's Day dates”
Ma up fro Incredible She was still paying attention to their conversation even as she carried out her other work Yuer felt Minako-sa down on her
”Then we'll bump the dates to the next issue”
”Even though it's the graduation special edition?”
Not even Minako-saraduation edition And ould happen if they postponed the date special for two editions? Freshness was key, after all
”We put an announcement about the date special edition in this week's edition And I've already received the first report for publication in next week's paper”
Ma the manuscript she held in her hand
”Incidentally, since we're on the subject, this is the report for the Rosa Chinensis en bouton soeurs' date”
In other words, the report that Touko had subiven her a copy of the report yesterday, as she was about to go hoiven Touko the okay when they met in the hallway earlier today, so it looked like Touko had handed it in not long after that
”No ht so a report”
Mami-san turned to her onee-sama and forcibly expressed her opinion
Yumi did feel a bit sorry for the hyped-up Minako-sareed to a s, 'Rosa Chinensis en bouton has chosen Matsudaira Touko as her petit soeur' Soular newspaper
But Minako-saive up
”If you're to be the editor-in-chief of the Lillian Kawaraban, that's exactly what you'll have to do, Mami”
Her reasoning was hard to follow, but basically she was saying that emotions shouldn't play any part in her decisions
”The value in a topic is in how fresh it is You have to publish it nohile people still are unaware of it”
”Anyway, let's suppose I did find some way to fit it into next week's edition”
Mahed, then continued
”By that time, most of the student body would already know about it”
”Then publish it this week”
”Surely that's impossible”
Yumi too raised her voice It was just absurd She didn't know exactly how long it took to et all the data for a story, then write it up, then proofread it and finally print it Today was Tuesday The Lillian Kawaraban was usually published on Wednesday, although it could vary depending on circuh she wasn't in the newspaper club, Yumi could clearly see that it wouldn't be possible for the ready for tomorrow
”Don't try and tell me what's impossible”
Minako-sah she was going to burst a blood vessel Unless she could find a way to increase the nu to be enough time
”I've got it”
Ma
”There's a e can do this”
Mami-san, you must have misspoken Surely you meant, 'There's no e can do this'
(Oh? But then what did she ot it')
”So, please tell us about how you intend to do this”
Minako-salared as she looked back over her shoulder It was obvious that she was in no mood for frivolity
”That's because”
Mami-san spoke smoothly
”We can do this as an extra”
I see - Wait
What!?
”And so”
Inside the Rose Mansion, shi+mako-san smiled
”You were forced to accede, Yumi-san”
”… Pretty much”
Seated in her chair, Yumi slu with Minako-sa-team of Minako-sama and Mami-san You could say her defeat was sealed the
”But that's fine, don't you think?”
”Huh? Really?”
”Yeah”
Easy for her to say, it was someone else's problem Even so, shi+mako-san had become incredibly positive since she started her second-year, so she would probably still say it was fine if she were the one in this position
”You don't want the article to be too small, people won't check every little corner”
Were Noriko-chan's words, as she brought over some warm tea
”I see That's one reason”
Yumi started to share the same opinion as the two soeurs Currently, the only people in the Rose Mansion were Yumi and the White Rose Sisters, so it was a majority opinion
”By the hat happened to Yoshi+no-san?”
When Yumi entered the second floor roo shi+mako-san It had probably been Yoshi+no-san's Yu their classrooo ahead of you,” before Yumi set off for the clubhouse Yoshi+no-san hadn't said where she was going, but the Rose Mansion was the obvious assuo ahead of you,” if she was going to thefor club activities
”Well, about that Tanuether”
”Speaking of Tanuma Chisato-san - ”
From memory, she had been Yoshi+no-san's partner for their date on Sunday
”Yeah, it see to talk about their report After all, when you put so in the newspaper, a lot of people will see it So they were probably going to discuss whether ritten so far was okay, or if some parts should be omitted”
Since she said this, did that mean that there were some parts of shi+mako-san's date that wouldn't be in their report? Hmm, as it? The name of shi+mako-san's partner The name 'Ami' sounded familiar
”Will you be okay, onee-sama? You haven't talked to Ami-san about your report”
Noriko-chan said, sounding a bit sulky That's right, it was Aawa Ami-san, to be precise
”I'll be fine”
shi+ the hint of jealousy from Noriko-chan Really, she could be quite dense
”Why do you think that?”
Yu away at shi+h she would never say that She was subconsciously glad to see Noriko-chan, who always actedsoe
”Because Ami-san has someone else she can talk to about it”
”Someone else? Who?”
Yunore such a statement
”That ansill be in the Valentine's Date edition of the Lillian Kawaraban”
”Oooh How about a preview?”
Yuht it was cruel of shi+mako-san to say thatthe fact that she hadn't said anything to her classmates earlier today
”Teeheehee It'll be interesting”
”Then I'll look forward to reading it”
Not even Noriko-chan could keep asking her directly The power of shi+h was incredible
”… Shall we get to work?”
Yu to make up for the time lost by her late arrival As she walked over to the corner of the room where the papers were stacked up, Noriko-chan called out to her:
”There's no work to do though”
Yumi couldn't believe her ears She didn't have to look at a calendar to know they had a lot of preparation work to do for the third-years' send-off party Every day, the docu up Decisions they had to make On top of that, there was the farewell party for the Roses, so there was surely a pile of work they had to do
”More accurately, there's no work that we can do right now”
shi+ at her notebook
”We can't decide what should be displayed in the auditorium lobby because we don't have the coroups anted to participate Same for the order of events The due-date for both of those is to to go over the flowers and other things we have to buy after all”
”I see And since I wasn't here until just now, and Yoshi+no-san isn't here currently, it's decided that we can't decide”
Rei-sama and Sachiko-sama retired about the time the elections for the next ter Yas either
”It's no good if we decide with only two of us here, right?”
shi+mako-san smiled
That's right Now that they were almost third-years, the Red Rose faht the total up to five people,it somewhat more respectable
”By the way, did Touko have club activities?”
Re, Yumi asked Noriko-chan, Touko's classmate
”Yeah She , before heading off She said to give her regards to you, Yumi-sama”
”Ah The third-years' send-off is co up soon, isn't it”
Yumi had heard that the draroups and perfor in the third-years' send-off party were busy practicing As usual, that statement went double for Touko
In spite of this, she'd already completed her report on the date and submitted it to the newspaper club, which was quite impressive It was only barely noticeable, but Touko really did have a very serious andto be admired and thankful for
”I heard she was doing a scene with the club president What kind of practice could they be getting up to?”
Noriko-chan whispered
”Why?”
”It looks like she's been having club activities before school and during the lunch break, but Touko, her ars… how do I put thisthey're covered in wounds”
”Wounds?”
”Yeah Individually, none of the of a deal”
Sounds like they were light grazes, or bruises like you'd see on a peach if you press down too hard While theyif there were lots of them
”I ”
”You'd never knohen she's wearing her school uniform”
Apparently Noriko-chan witnessed this when they were changing into their sports tracksuits Which meant that only her classmates would know
”What did Touko say?”
”She said it was no big deal, and not to worry about it She seemed focused on the play, but didn't want to talk about their rehearsals I'ht not understand, but I prefer to have a clear distinction between reality and fiction”
Noriko-chan tried to explain by using a convoluted exaht next to a still-wet area of paint in a different color, causing the two colors to reeably
”That didn't happen when she was playing Ah”
Touko played A this year's school festival Perhaps her preparations were different this time around Needless to say, on the same day that she performed in ”Little Woe in the Yamayurikai play But, perhaps due to aTouko's role as Minister of the Right in ”Torikaebaya Monogatari”
”Since Touko said not to worry about it, let's just keep quiet about it for now I'll discreetly try to find out what's going on”
Yoshi+no-san returned a short while later
”I'm baaack Ahh”
Yoshi+no-san sat down in her seat, then flopped down onto the table
”Working hard?”
”I'h everywhere ent and everything we did The report's supposed to be the date winner's responsibility, right? So why did I have to be there while she thought about it? Chisato-san wrote one last year as well, so she should be good at it by now”
Caught up in her own complaints, it took Yoshi+no-san a while to notice
”Oh, Yumi-san's joined us”
Yoshi+no-san energetically got up and h to make sure she hadn't been mistaken
”I heard this froe ru the rounds”
Yuer at her
”Me?”
It was probably about Touko Yumi had accepted that there would probably be all kinds of rumors until the Lillian Kawaraban extra came out
”Nope, not you, but your onee-sama”
”Sachiko-sama?”
That was unexpected Yuine what the rumor could be about
”Hey Sachiko-sa to Lillian's Women's University, isn't she?”
”That's right”
”And with priority entrance, they look at your high-school results so you don't have to take an exam”
”Yeah?”
That's why it's called priority entrance
”So then, why is she frantically studying?”
”Studying!?”
”It's like she's obsessed with it - apparently she's studying so recess and self-study periods”
People study every day For sooal, that in itself isn't that strange
However, you had to wonder when that person was Sachiko-sama
”Was that so that Chisato-san saw directly?”
Yumi was completely unable to accept it All she could think was, 'No way'
She knew her onee-sama was the type of person that never needed to study, either for mid-terms or for the end of semester examinations
”Who knows? She said it was a ru she heard”
Yoshi+no-san said it could have been so like someone in Chisato-san's class had an onee-sama in Sachiko-sama's class She didn't seem to knoho started the rumor
Still, no matter where the ru this
”Next time I see my onee-sama, I'll ask her about it indirectly”
”I think that will be fine”
shi+reed Rumors were rumors, they shouldn't be taken as truth Even if the ru, it's possible it could be e preposterous
”There will probably be a few people troubling us with questions about this Having said that, it's not soo out of their way to ask about it So let's leave this up to Yumi-san, as she is Sachiko-sama's petit soeur”
Yoshi+no-san and Noriko-chan agreed to shi+mako-san's proposal Therefore
”Very well, your humble servant accepts this responsibility”
Yumi thumped her chest Unfortunately, she thu fit
(So that means)
Yumi wouldn't have to carefully watch over just her petit soeur, but also her onee-sama
A succession of worrying things had arisen since her arrival here